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Podcast: Transformative Principal
Episode: Time Serving Students with Jon Laffoon Transformative Principal 119
Description:
Jon Laffoon is the principal of Pea Ridge High School in Arkansas, where they are using a dynamic schedule called the flex mod schedule to allow time to serve students, rather than students serving time. It is pretty remarkable and impressive.
Flex Mod schedule
Form of a block schedule. Certain classes that might meet 4 days a week or 3 days a week.
Videos explaining the schedule
Empower the teachers - get them out of their silos
The gray ILT times keep the classes from conflicting.
The schedule to look at
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